OK, I’m a terrible person. I admit it. I don’t like poetry. Hate it really. Most poetry I don’t get, a lot of what I do understand strikes me as silly and what I do like is invariably unmetered and non-rhyming – in short, prose. I do like limericks. They make me laugh. And Dr. […]
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The numbers are just not there. I cannot figure out why. For three years now a small group of residents has been trying to grow the Friends of the William K. Sanford Town Library in Colonie into a bigger group. We don’t need legions. Twenty new members would insure the continuance of all current programs […]
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Everyone at Colonie Central High School knows this one junior. Oh, not his name or that he’s funny and loves heavy metal music or has trouble with reading or that he’s part Swedish and part Italian or really anything about him. Except for this. Peter Ferris is the tallest person in the building. At 16, […]
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By day my sister Lisa is a nurse practitioner in a women’s cancer care practice and her friend Molly Rhodes is a lawyer and the busy mother of a toddler son. By night, lunch hour and weekend, however, they are marriage officers for the town of Colonie. Now, in my traditional family you either got […]
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